IRIS

A work-in-progress archive AV performance from Scott Johannsson, who has been delving into local lore with a number of community groups as part of for-Wards.

Filmmaker/musician Scott Johannsson has been working with a number of Erdington community groups as part of the citywide for-Wards music programme, culminating in a full performance this June. The four short audio/visual pieces showing today represent their work together so far. Using archive material from MACE as well as the artists' home movies, these images were repurposed into abstract film collages which are coloured with semi-improvised electronic music, voice and field recordings, and blend personal reminiscence, local history and dramatisation.